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Are the right-wing plutocratics who hatched a slow-acting coup as a backlash against democracy and the gains for social justice achieved during the 1960s. As John Atcheson timelines at Common Dreams, the coup was designed “to completely change the cultural … Continue reading →

Trump is really exempting Fox from his poll because he wants to know which is the SECOND fakest news source.

Heaven help us — they’re now investing in media as part of their grand scheme to overthrow American demoocracy.

He wants a FAKE NEWS contest in which Fox is exempted — but Fox is just about the fakest of them all. But it’s good at licking his boots. The President grows more demented by the day.

Their calling Mick Mulvaney a “fiscal hawk” is like calling Steve Bannon a “populist.” Like a pirhana, Mulvaney goes after any spending that benefits working Americans. That’s when he chomps his vicious little jaws. Otherwise, he’s fine with the military-industrial … Continue reading →

and take a posse down to the CFPB on Monday to ensure that, as mandated by law, the Deputy Director becomes Acting Director and the GOP does not get to do a replay of its theft of the Supreme Court … Continue reading →

As evidenced by every step he’s taken, mostly likely his grotesque tweeting that the poor, pitiful financial institutions need to be protected from the CFPB. Trump and the GOP Establishment’s agenda are perfectly in sync, and so, Steve Bannon, there … Continue reading →

He is indeed a sad, sick joke. Btw, that’s the way Mulvaney characterized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that he will now lead if Trump has his way. Vulpine Mulvaney hates anything that prevents the American people from being exploited. … Continue reading →

which is pretty much standard GOP obfuscation. Among my favorite of her takedowns is Pai’s accusation that the 1934 Communications Act is is a “relic of a bygone era.” In reality, the Act “as amended,” is “Still in force,” Clybuirn notes. “Has … Continue reading →

Josh Barro at Business Insider speculates on what might have been: “if the Clintons had agreed to go off into a normal post-presidency instead of holding Democrats hostage in an emotionally abusive relationship for 16 more years, or if Democratic … Continue reading →